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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Indirect Content.

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Game Friday: Vocabulary, Poverty, and Meaningful Score Keeping

Museum 2.0

This week, Free Rice , a very casual game that can allow you to use your erudite mastery of the English language to provide rice to hungry people via the United Nations World Food Program (UN WFP). This is an interesting sort of hybrid--supporting a content site with a game that seems unrelated.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

We sell our content to mainstream and other media organizations all over the world. I learned to speak the language fluently, and was there at a really intense time in terms of the civil war, and a lot of the political uprisings that were going on. We do sell our content to media organizations all over the U.S.,

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Online Fundraising Site: How To Create A High-Performing Fundraising Website

CauseVox

In order to maximize a short attention span, it makes sense to marry visual and written content. Source: Casa Congo, School for Conservation). 3) Content Marketing. Content marketing is an excellent strategy for cultivating and retaining donors. It uses content as a way to engage, educate, and fundraise.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. That's the story of Women for Women. She was a sexual slave.